https://doctorow.medium.com/the-ai-hype-bubble-is-the-new-crypto-hype-bubble-74e53028631e
I *am* a fan of LLMs (not so much image generators) and blockchain (not
so much crypto or NFTs) in their "best" uses (not that I or anyone else
really knows what that is) in spite of my intrinsic neoLuddite affect.
Nevertheless I think Doctorow in his usual acerbic and penetrating style
really nails it well here IMO.
I particularly appreciated his reference/quote to Emily Bender's "High
on Supply" and "word/meaning conflation" in the sense of "don't mistake
an accent for a personality" in the dating scene.
A lot of my own contrarian commments on this forum come from resisting
what Doctorow introduces (to me) as "CritiHype" (attributed to Lee
Vinsel)... the feeling that some folks make a (a)vocation out of
kneejerk criticism. It is much easier to *poke* at something than to
*do* something worthy of being *poked at*. I appreciate that Doctorow
doesn't seem to (by my fairly uncritical eye) engage in this much
himself... which is why I was drawn into this article...
I also very much appreciate his quote from Charlie Stross:
/corporations are Slow AIs, autonomous artificial lifeforms that
consistently do the wrong thing even when the people who nominally
run them try to steer them in better directions:/
/https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future
<https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future>
/
//
I could go on quoting and excerpting and commenting on his whole article
and the myriad links/references he offers up but will curb my enthusiasm
and leave it to the astute FriAM readers to choose how much to indulge
in. It was a pretty good antidote for my own AI-thusiasm driven by
long chats with GPT4 (converging on being more like long sessions
wandering through Wikipedia after the first 100 hours of engagement).
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